Trash of the Count's Family - TCF Part 2 - Chapter 68

Cale was troubled to see the sparkling eyes of the Xiaolen residents. He wanted to send them out as they annoyed him. But he reasoned out that he would not be seeing them afterwards once he returned to the Roan Kingdom, so he tolerated them for now. He knew that the divine mirror could be used to communicate with someone in this Xiaolen world, but saw no reason to do that.
He believed that he had already done his job, so they should take of the rest. After all, these people were planning to erect numerous statues of him. Cale sighed and felt dizzy from just thinking about those statues. He soon got back to work. Cale asked the pope if they had removed all the doors here.
The pope replied that they had removed all the traps here in the underground, and all the room doors in the hallway had also been taken apart. They had placed the Jiangshi in the rooms afterwards. Even the Jiangshi outside the capital were brought here. Cale stood in the hallway, feeling uncomfortable with the people watching him.
He used his Dominating Aura AP and told them to not interrupt him. Eruhaben laughed and Sui covered his mouth. Raon remarked that his human looked as solemn as the crown prince. Cale ignored those three and looked inside the rooms, seeing the Jiangshi placed there. He said that since this was the first time he would use the divine item, it might take a few days to purify all the Jiangshi.
Cale placed the divine item on his palm and injected his power into it. The cheapskate was excited to use it as a rose gold current entwined Cale’s hand. Cale thought of using about 90% of his power. The efficiency of his power was doubled here, so he would get an effect of 180%. With the amount of smoke coming from the stove, he thought that he would have to repeat this several times to purify everything.
Raon told him to not overdo it. Otherwise, he would lock up his human in his castle. Cale worried that Raon was speaking about scary things, but also thought that he would get a vacation if he stayed in Raon’s castle. The cheapskate called out to Cale who had closed his eyes. Cale’s Fire AP was being sucked into the stove.
But the cheapskate shouted that 50% of Cale’s power had already been sucked in by the stove. It had happened instantly and did not even take a few seconds. The cheapskate instructed Cale to hold back his power, and Cale mentally cursed the God of the Fire of Purification. The cheapskate reported that it was now 75%, so Cale concentrated on holding back his power.
The cheapskate screamed that it was now 89% as Cale kept mentally cursing. The flustered cheapskate said that it had reached the 90 mark, and continued to call Cale. Finally, Cale stopped his power from being sucked in, and the cheapskate sighed in relief. The cheapskate said that if 100% of his power had been sucked in, Cale would have coughed blood and passed out.
Cale still ignored the cheapskate as he thought that he stopped it at 96%. But he soon trembled and felt dizzy. CH supported him who had yet to open his eyes. The cheapskate worriedly called out to him, and Super Rock explained that Cale was exhausted due to his power being rapidly sucked out. But Cale likened his dizziness to the feeling of driving for hours on a winding mountain road in an extremely fast car.
Raon asked if he was okay or if he felt like throwing up or fainting. He added that he knew that this would happen. He was sure that that Cale would throw up blood after causing this kind of spectacle. Raon repeated his threat of locking up Cale in his castle. But Cale stopped at the words ‘this kind of spectacle.’ He had an ominous feeling about those words, recalling the time when Eruhaben looked at him with pity.
Cale opened his eyes and was bewildered at what he saw. He was surrounded by smoke, but that smoke was not the white smoke he had seen earlier. The smoke was red with golden sparkling things in the middle. It was as if there were stars twinkling in the red sunset. Cale replied to CH that he was fine and pushed the latter away.
He realized that the stove was no longer in his hand and was floating in the air. Red smoke was continuously being spewed out as a rose gold fire burned inside the stove. The transparent sides of the stove had now turned red, emitting a golden halo. Cale sighed and asked on what happened. Eruhaben and Sui approached him.
Cale was convinced that something strange happened upon seeing Sui’s smirk. Eruhaben sighed and explained that red smoke had suddenly rose and filled the entire place after Cale used the divine item. Cale remarked that the place was too quiet. The frustrated Eruhaben tried to explain why, but shut his mouth.
He wanted to say that Cale showed them such a sacred sight, so how could the people here say anything? But he could not tell Cale those words. Eruhaben recalled the sacred spectacle a while ago. The moment Cale used his Fire AP and closed his eyes, the divine item began to vibrate and suck in Cale’s Fire AP.
Wind rose from the stove as it left Cale’s hand and floated in the air at the level of Cale’s chest. The shaking of the stove intensified as it gradually turned red before spewing out red smoke tinged with gold. The smoke slowly spread out everywhere. The onlookers made a fuss about it, but soon quieted down.
The smoke was warm and refreshing, possessing a sacred energy. Even those who did not know what sacredness was what would understand it. That smoke had enveloped Cale as he constantly supplied the stove with his power. And when Cale stopped using his power, he groaned and stumbled. The red smoke instantly spread all over the place as if a volcano had exploded.
But it was comfortable to breathe in that smoke. It was not like the mana here was rich or the air was good. It was like one’s entire body was being purified. Eruhaben sighed, wondering how to explain all of his thoughts to Cale. So he simply answered Cale to just do whatever he normally does.